[TUHS] Chaosnet for 4.1BSD

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Nov 30 01:35:16 AEST 2018


On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com writes:
> > > I have 4.1BSD running with Chaosnet patches from MIT. I'm adding a
> > > Unibus CH11 network interface to SIMH. It's not working fully yet,
> > > but it's close.
> > Please post updates as you go!!!
>
> It's working now.  I have also tested MINITS running on the pdp11
> simulator.  MINITS is a Chaosnet gateway, router, terminal concentrator,
> graphical display, printer server, etc.
>
> At one point there existed Chaosnet patches for PDP-11 Unix V7, but so
> far I haven't found them.
>

They sound interesting... hopefully the resurface. The hackmem describes
all the changes needed, but it's a poor substitute for the code.

Warner
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